Re: Ada 95 tasking problems with Ada 83 code

[robert_jm_barron@hotmail.com (Robert Barron)]

>> 
>> > I am porting a huge program from Ada 83 on HP-UX to GNAT Ada 95 on a PC
>> > running Linux.  Creating the executable was not a big problem, but I
>> > can't get it to run very far.  It appears that when a procedure rendezvous'
>> > with a task, the task won't run.  The task has a simple accept statement,
>> > and it appears to accept the rendezvous because the calling routine
>> > continues to process.  Text_IO calls before and after the accept statement
>> > in the task fail to appear on the screen though.  If I put a "do ... end"
>> > on the accept statement then the caller no longer continues (i.e.
>> > suspended).
>> >
>> > Is this a known problem?  Is there a solution other then removing all
>> > tasks in our program (over 100).

I'd also look into the differences between multi-cpu HP-UX (Iassume)
and single CPU LINUX 
maybe the run time library can't implement the tasks properly?
try adding pragma TIME_SLICE (which will help the implementation)

worked for me once...

Robert